Manual addresses effective practices to promote positive social emotional climate in schools.

Manual addresses effective practices to promote positive social emotional climate in schools.

Needs assessment guidance addresses effective practices to promote positive social emotional climate in schools.

A. The department shall:

• (1) issue guidance for bullying prevention programs and policies in accordance with the Safe Schools for All Students Act [22-35-1 NMSA 1978]; and
• (2) within one hundred twenty days of the effective date of the Safe Schools for All Students Act:
• (a) promulgate rules for a model policy for local school boards on bullying prevention in accordance with that act, as well as any developmentally, culturally or linguistically appropriate variants of the policy;
• (b) provide guidance to local school boards relating to effective forms of progressive discipline to reduce bullying and school violence; and
• (c) provide guidance to local school boards on effective bullying prevention programs to reduce bullying and school violence.

Manual addresses effective practices to promote positive social emotional climate in schools.